Celebrating Europe’s Consumer Health Best Practice, With AESGP’s Luis Rhodes Baiao

The Association of the European Self-Care Industry, or AESGP, has launched a digital platform that brings together inspiring self-care initiatives from across Europe. Launched to coincide with International Self-Care Day 2025, AESGP’s Self-Care Insight and Inspire platform showcases national-level initiatives led or supported by the consumer health industry in collaboration with healthcare professionals, sectoral associations, and public authorities. In this episode of the Over the Counter podcast, AESGP governmental and public affairs manager, Luis Rhodes Baiao, tells HBW Insight about the background behind the platform and pulls out some of his favourite examples.

Timestamps

2:00 – Introductions

5:15 – AESGP’s Self-Care Insight and Inspire platform

14:30 – Luis’s favourite examples

17:30 – Public reaction to the campaign

18:50 – Next steps

20:30 – How to get involved

Guest Bio

Luis Rhodes Baiao is governmental and public affairs Manager at AESGP. Before, he was policy advisor to a Portuguese Member of the European Parliament on the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), during the mandate 2014 to 2019. He is currently also vice-president of the General Assembly of the Association Public Affairs Portugal (PAPT).